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Old 12-04-16, 11:33 PM   #1681
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The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, by Robin Lane Fox.
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Old 12-23-16, 11:32 PM   #1682
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
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Old 12-24-16, 07:39 AM   #1683
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Just finished Norman Friedman's Fighters over the Fleet. Wrote a review for Amazon if anyone's curious.
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Old 01-04-17, 04:39 PM   #1684
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Just starting Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857, by Andrew Ward.

It took me a month to finish the last book. This one may take even longer.
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Old 01-06-17, 05:03 AM   #1685
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Just read »Children of time« by Adrian Tchaikovsky. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...ildren-of-time
When you are into science fiction, this one is a must. Best book i read for a long time. The title does not do the book justice at all though.
I'll treat certain creatures with more respect after reading that
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Currently reading 'Pride Runs Deep' by R. Cameron Cooke, on Chapter 6 so far. This book seriously got off on a really good start and I can't wait to see what's next on the page. Really enjoying it.

This topic has some great suggestions, I'm going have to look up 'Iron Coffins' for my next read.
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Old 02-08-17, 03:21 PM   #1687
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Started reading my first book of the year today..

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THE GERMAN DEFENCE OF UPPER SILESIA JANUARY-MAY 1945

By Georg Gunter
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I'm reading Castles of Steel, by Robert K. Massie. It's about the British vs German navies during WW1. I have some trouble putting it down.
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Old 02-28-17, 10:19 AM   #1689
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I have some trouble putting it down.
Not surprising, it is a very good read indeed
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Old 02-28-17, 10:46 AM   #1690
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I'm reading Castles of Steel, by Robert K. Massie. It's about the British vs German navies during WW1. I have some trouble putting it down.
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Not surprising, it is a very good read indeed
INDEED! not to B read alone; is essentially vol I of the two part Massie history of the whole mess....
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I just finished reading the most recent edition of Ewan Corlett's The Iron Ship: The Story of Brunel's SS Great Britain a couple days ago. I wrote a review on Amazon if anyone's interested in reading it: https://www.amazon.com/review/RU7TGQ...SIN=0952632330
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Old 03-12-17, 07:06 PM   #1692
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^ I liked your review of the Sopwith Camel book too.
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I just published my review of Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield. Translation: there's a foot of snow on the ground, and have nothing better to do!

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Although a library of books seems to have been written on Jutland, this appears to be the first serious one to focus mainly on the condition and exploration of the wrecks. The author is a marine archaeologist who's spent the last 15 years locating and studying the wrecks of 23 of the 25* ships sunk during the battle. Although "Jutland 1916" won't force people to totally reconsider their preconceived notions about the battle in the same way that "Shattered Sword" did with Midway, it nonetheless adds some interesting new wrinkles to the Jutland story.

The book is divided into three sections, covering the battlecruiser, fleet, and night actions. Each of the major (light cruiser and larger) ships receives a chapter of its own. Each describes the general history of the ship and the role it played in the battle, eyewitness and photographic records of its loss, and a study of the condition of the wreck. The destroyers are covered in a separate chapter at the end of each section, which are similar in format to the major warship chapters, but obviously not quite as detailed.

The highlight of this book are the sections focusing on the condition of the wrecks themselves. Along with many ROV and free-dive photographs, there are multibeam sonar scans of each wreck site, showing details as small as one meter across. Considering the horrible underwater visibility in the North Sea, these images frequently provide revelatory details. We finally get a good idea of the devastation wrought by a magazine explosion (almost nothing of "Queen Mary" exists forward of Q turret), the effect of 100 years on the bottom upon lightly-built destroyer hulls, and the extent of the illegal salvage carried out on many of the wrecks.

Unfortunately, this book suffers from occasional moments of stylistic excess. Some of the pages have maps or photographs splashed across the background, which can be distracting. The pages featuring ROV images are printed on glossy black paper, which *looks* nice, but is an absolute fingerprint magnet. Considering Dr. McCartney's maritime historian credentials, I'm kind of surprised at how much landlubber terminology snuck into here. Barbettes become "armoured turret sleeves," a boiler's water drum becomes a "water trough," a scupper becomes a "drain," and so on. No doubt only us hardcore naval history geeks will notice (or care) about this, but they stuck out to me.

Although it does have some minor issues, "Jutland 1916" is a pretty enjoyable work on the whole. The author assumes the reader has a better than average understanding of the battle going in, and I'd recommend studying a good set of maps first. Based on the evidence here, it would seem that a "do or die" point is approaching for the Jutland wrecks. Should they be protected as war graves, and what can be done to prevent illegal salvaging? What artifacts should be preserved before they completely disappear? Innes McCartney doesn't provide easy answers to these questions, but he does do an excellent job raising them.

*The wrecks of the Sparrowhawk and V4 had not been located when this book was published in the UK in May 2016.
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